Plasterer&#39;s implement.



CiU. BEBE, @.BLAGK G. PALMER. PLASTERBXE IPLBlENT.

Mummert mmm un. 21, 1m.

1,060,810. Patented May 6, i913.

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060,810,- i specimen examinateur. PatentedMa'y 6,1913,-"` apjiucauen meaAprn ez; 1912. 'segua Rossano. To #may consent.' fitted with the regularjainbs. The strips Be it known that we, CHARLES O. BLE'E, are placed inthe opening close to "the vertul residing at Fort Wayne, in the countyof cal edges thereof, and" are clamped in placer-154il Allen and Stateof Indiana, CHARLES BLAGK byl the following means: N ear-the top and ..5residing at' Westminster, mthe county oi bot-tom 'of each strip is aclamp. comprising Carroll and State of Maryland, and CHARLES a jaw 8 on.one ,end of a shank' 9. These .PALME'R,' residing at Fort Wayne, in -the'clam s are monili d on the strips in sueh 'a'. county io ff'rllenand'State of Indiana, citi-v position that the-jaws of the clampsfo'fgonezeps o'ft-he United States,-have invented cerstripare opposite the jawsof the clampsof 'j' 10 tal'nneiii1 and useful Improvements in Plasthe-other.str1p, sothat the strips may -be tererlfs'jlmplements, of whichthe following mounted in the'opening with the edge of the' v'isaspecification This. invention is an implement designed `the 'stripstogether, t e`y 'are securely v for plasterersuse to provide a guide and.in place. "For 'tliepurpose of drawing the?, 'v 1 5 -straight'edge forwork around window, door strips together, there are 'provided "eoil'edfle and other openings in which'the jambe have springs 10 having one ofltheir ends fastened.' not' been'f'set. to a bolt 11 carrled by`one-ofthe strips and` It is the'object ofthe inventionV -to protheir otherends toasimilar b'ltcar'riedh 66 r vide 'asmple and eiiicient implementwhichthe other strip.A Thesesprings tend to pu` '2o-can be eas1l y anduickly mounted in the the strips togetherand thus firmly engagev `30front elevation thereof,i and -Figf'S openin'gVorremove 'therefrom-andwhich the jaws of the clam with-the opposite is adjustable'. accordingto the thickness of sides of theA wall to ho d the implement in :1

, the wall having .the opening, as well as the place. Thisrilientconnection betweenthe `-7-0 heilght of the opening.` strips alsoenables them lto be s read apart 25 n o rder that the invention maybebet- -and thus adjusted to walls of di erent thick- 'ter understood,referenceis hd to the acness." Ihe Shanks 9 of the clamps haveeompanying drawing, in whici.- longitudinal slots 12 -through which the"F1 1re 1 is aside elevation of the imple# 'bolts 11 pass, .which permitsthe'clamps to "75 '.xnent in position ready for use; Fig. 2 1s a beadjusted laterally with respect to the` s a. secstrips for .thick or thmplaster., The clamps` tion onthe line 3-3 of Fig. 2, areheld infadjustedposition by nuts -13 "Referringspecifically to the'drawing,'the screwedon'the bolts 11.

implement cqmprises af: pain of laterally The. implement hereindescribed'caj' be 48l) spaded straight strips, the members' o'f said Ireadilyapplied to the opening and iseasil l 85 pairl being .each in twoor more sections, adjusted toproperly fit therein, and it' egg which aretelescopically .connected The fectu'ally serves the purpose for which itis sections Ahave op one side a longitudinal designed. It will berunderstood of course, T :tubular ortion 7 arranged to telescope, onethat erichside oithe opening may be'pro- '8a' within t e other so thatl'the strips ma)T be vided 'with one-of the implements.

40 lengthened or v'shortened according to the The preferredembodimentoflth inve`nheight of' the door, window, or other o ention'l has beenshown but it is a arent-that ing to which they are to be applied. T esevarious changes in the structural etails may ,strips are placed in theopening, against be made wit out departing from`the spirit 90 thevertical edges thereof, and formfalse and sco e of the invention.

45 jambs to give the plasterer -a guide and XVe c aim:

straight edge in working around the open 1. A plasterers implementcomprising ing where such opening has not yet been laterally spacedparallel strips having opwall between` thejaws and. then by drawing l` lhel e051" posite jaws'at their outer longitudinal edges, und 'springsconnected at their ends to the strips for drawing; the same' together.-v

' 2. A plastercrs `implement` comprising laterally spaced parallelstrips composed 0f on the fnce ofthe sections outsdefhe telescopingJortions thereof. send" jaws having .springs'cinneetedat their ends tothe strips fou-drawing the same together.

tures in pl'csencewf 't-'vo'witnesses.

' CHARLES C. BLEE.

CHARLES BLACK.

. CHARLES PALMER. `Witnesses to- Chas. O. Blee and Chas. Black:

N. H. BAUMGARTNER, GEO. E. MATTHEWS.

' 'Witnesses to Chas. Palmer:

' JOHN N. WEIGLE, CHARLES ASHLEY.

